Softball

StriKeOut Cancer Saturday With GC Softball

Mar 07, 2013

MILLEDGEVILE, Ga. – Georgia College softball (16-10, 4-2 PBC) will host a StriKeOut Cancer initiative during their upcoming home game against Young Harris University, Saturday March 9, at 1 p.m at the Peeler Complex on West Campus.

The StriKeOut Cancer program is an initiative of the American Cancer Society and the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) to help combat cancer with fundraisers and increased awareness. StriKeOut Cancer provides critical mission outreach, while raising funds in support of the Society's lifesaving efforts to eliminate cancer as a life threatening disease.

Since the inception of the StriKeOut Cancer initiative over 10 years ago, NFCA membership teams have raised tens of thousands of dollars to support the fight against cancer. StriKeOut Cancer also provides a platform for breast cancer awareness as well as women's cancer research.

Fans are encouraged to wear pink to the softball games and donations will be accepted. GC softball player Natalie Lampert's (Marietta,Ga.) mother Janet Hamm, who survived breast cancer last fall, will throw out the first pitch of the game.

The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.